V-2

American  

[vee-too] / ˈviˈtu /

Or V-two

noun

V-2's plural

1. a liquid-fueled rocket used as a ballistic missile by the Germans, mainly against London, late in World War II.

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V-2 British  

noun

1. a rocket-powered ballistic missile invented by the Germans in World War II: used esp to bombard London. It used ethanol as fuel and liquid oxygen as the oxidizer

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• V-2's
  plural

Etymology

Origin of V-2

see _V-1

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

V-2 V-2's

The OT’s Jewish victims, like their non-Jewish counterparts, were forced to work on everything from underground armaments factories to V-2 rockets and even a railroad above the Arctic Circle in Norway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

In February 1944, Litherland was co-piloting a B-17F Flying Fortress that was struck by anti-aircraft fire after a bombing raid on a German V-2 rocket site in Bois-Coquerel, France.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2023

Wernher von Braun, who had overseen the Nazi V-2 rocket and later became the architect of NASA’s Saturn V rocket, also came to North America through this program, and the two interacted at space conferences.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2020

By 1969, we knew Werner von Braun, hero of the space program, the man who “aimed at the stars,” was really Hitler’s favorite rocket man, the developer of the V-2 missile, the Reich’s “vengeance weapon.”

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2019

In World War II, Germany built on Oberth’s ideas and developed the V-2, a rocket powerful enough to carry an explosive warhead all the way from northern Germany to London.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

We may be grateful to Providence that the Germans got the V-1's and V-2's late and in limited quantities and even more grateful that they did not get the atomic bomb at all.

From Time ● Aug. 9, 2017

The V-2's report gave a cross section view of almost the entire atmosphere.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since it rises nearly twice as high as the V2, it may be expected to exceed the V-2's 230-mile range.

From Time Magazine Archive

At last Hitler was persuaded to watch a film of a V-2's flight.

From Time Magazine Archive

We may be grateful to Providence that the Germans got the V-l’s and V-2’s late and in limited quantities and even more grateful that they did not get the atomic bomb at all.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut